Chandigarh, November 2 : The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition against the merger of 800 government schools in Punjab. The order came after Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda told the bench that the petition was filed to favour teachers to be relocated. Nanda said in some schools two teachers were […]
Patiala, November 2 : Manjit Thind, a cameraman, has been arrested in the Geet Brar murder case. Geet’s body was recovered from Rajpura on Wednesday. She was a makeup artist in Punjabi film industry. The cameraman was her friend and had picked her up on Tuesday evening and murdered her in Rajpura by firing three […]
Amritsar, November 2 : Their prayers were answered after 11 long years as the two Pakistani sisters, along with the India-born daughter of one of them, left for Pakistan via the Attari border on Thursday afternoon. The sisters, who were arrested at Attari in 2006 for carrying drugs, were released from Amritsar jail in the morning. […]
Kuljit Bains : A couple of ministers in the Punjab Government, and a clutch of bureaucrats — headed, of course, by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh — are right now toiling hard to arrange around Rs 6,000 crore immediately, avowedly for the benefit of a few seriously stricken sectors of the state. The state’s residents, […]
Chandigarh : Now, your activities on social media may have an adverse bearing on the prospects of getting a passport. The Punjab Police have issued instructions to their staff to check applicants’ social media life during verification. The police rationale behind the move is that virtual life on Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms is […]